The Lagos State chapter of the Action Congress of Nigeria has urged Lagos State Government to contest the acquittal of Major Hamza Al-Mustapha, of the conspiracy and murder of Alhaja Kudirat Abiola.
Al-Mustapha, a former Chief Security Officer to the late Head of State, Sani Abacha, was discharged and acquitted last Friday by the Court of Appeal, sitting in Lagos.
In a statement by its Publicity Secretary, Joe Igbokwe, on Monday, the ACN said the judgment by the Appeal Court, was yet another indictment on the capacity of the nation’s judiciary to avail Nigerians of justice.
“Al-Mustapha’s acquittal is a shame and follows a pattern that has never punished high networth offenders for crimes they committed against the state or fellows Nigerians,” the statement read.
The party said it was still in shock over Al- Mustapha’s acquittal, given all evidence that had so far been tendered against him and his co-accused, Lateef Shofolahan.
It said, “Weighty evidence had been proferred against Al-Mustapha, including confessions of Sergeant Rogers, Maj. Muhammed Abdul, (the men that allegedly pulled the trigger that killed Mrs. Abiola) and Alhaji Lateef Shofolahun.
“Dismissing the case for lack of evidence seems to be a way of ensuring that Al-Mustapha escapes justice for the acts of crime and not in any way helping the soiled image of the Nigerian judiciary.”
The party noted that the acquittal came a few days after a popular Internet news site did a detailed report of an extensive plan to free Al-Mustapha and ensure that he escaped punishment for Kudirat’s death.
ACN said, “We believe that the judiciary, by this questionable verdict, is hoping to consign the killing of Kudirat Abiola to the long list of unsolved assassination cases that haunt the country today.
“While we align ourselves with the opinions of millions of Nigerians, who have called on the Lagos State Government to appeal the latest verdict and diligently pursue the course of justice for the slain Kudirat Abiola, we state that Nigeria is sitting on a keg of gun powder if Nigerians could be killed at will and their killing shoved under the carpet.”
It is a fact devoid of fallacy that AL Mustapha was ordered by his Oga at the top to eliminate late Kudirat Abiola, but his discharge is one of the problems Nigeria is facing, I wont call this situation CORRUPTION or FAVORITISM , but I l attribute it to JUDICIAL SHORT SIGHTEDNESS. the same is the case of James Ibori who was found NOT GUILTY in a Nigerian Court but was found Guilty by the Judicial system in the United Kingdom. without being sentimental a shallow minded person will see nothing wrong in the judgement because the Prosecution was not able to prove the case devoid of contradiction or beyond reasonable doubt. But I tell you If you are well abreast with Al Mustapha's story and the political history of the Abiolas' your heart will only pound for the phrase "JUSTICE MUST BE DONE".
In the words of "Martin Luther King" Law and order exists for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become dangerously dams that blocks the flow of social progress,It is my assertion that the Judgement of Justice Rita Pemu is unjust, justice cannot be for one side alone but must be for both sides even though she asserted that there was no straight circumstantial locus that Al Mustafa Sjot the trigger that killed Late Kudirat Abiola, I am sure that she (justice Rita) was alive hale and hearty in the 1990s,year 1996 precisely must have heard of the actions and inactions of Notorious general AL-MUSTAFA and sergeant Roger.
It is undisputed that Justice is blind and a respecter of no one, but it is also a bitter truth that no matter how skillful a swordsman is if he continues to fight blindfolded he will surely strike the innocent unknowingly somedays.If she can hear me, I will plead with her (Justice)to remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate.
ANIFOWOSHE TITILOPE TAWAKKALT, 300L LAW STUDENT UNIVERSITY OF ILORIN
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